Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 19:36:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: andrew@squiz.co.nz Cc: "Mark J. Taylor" <mtaylor@cybernet.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible security "risk" in ftp client Message-ID: <199808112336.TAA14070@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980812105007.16956A-100000@aniwa.sky> References: <XFMail.980811163822.mtaylor@cybernet.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980812105007.16956A-100000@aniwa.sky>
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<<On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:09:29 +1200 (NZST), Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> said: >> The program "/usr/bin/fetch" does it better: use the environment >> variables FTP_LOGIN and FTP_PASSWORD. > Environment variables are not private. > If you need to pass passwords to a program and you don't want the shell > to see, and probably leak that information, you'll have to do it via stdin > or a file. As the HTTP implementation in fetch(1) will in fact do. I did not think it worth the (five minutes') effort to implement it for FTP. (But I should go back and implement the MD5-based password authentication mode for HTTP....) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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